Penn State raises more than $110,000 at "Lift For Life"
Penn State football players raised a record total of more than $110,000 at Friday's "Lift For Life" charity fund-raiser.
Penn State raises more than $110,000 at "Lift For Life"
Joe Juliano
Officials announced that the annual Penn State Uplifting Athletes “Lift For Life” charity fund-raiser netted a record $110,374 for the Kidney Cancer Association.
The total broke the old record of $100,930 set last year. In the 10 years that the event has been held, members of the Penn State football team has raised more than $700,000 for kidney cancer research.
More than 80 players secured donations for the event. Junior guard Eric Shrive, vice president of the Nittany Lions’ Uplifting Athletes chapter, raised the most money with $31,868.
Lift For Life was conducted Friday before a crowd of more than 2,500 at the Penn State Lacrosse Field, with the offense going against the defense in four areas of strength. The offense clinched its victory by winning all three tug-of-war competitions.
Donations are still being accepted for this year. Information can be found at http://liftforlife.upliftingathletes.org/lfl2/
--Joe Juliano
no one can deny that penn state has also held a strong and storied tradition of helping cancer patients among others in need. THON has raised millions upon millions for kids with cancer and will continue to make a difference. ashame the media and know it all commentors thrive on the recent negativity.— psualum- Finally, I can comment on a Penn State article. I wanted to address the incompetence of the sports "writers" on philly.com since they are apparently illiterate and/or don't think for a living. The incentives with the Penn State story is stoke self-righteousness, conspiracies and surface cause and effect relationships---now this sells well and it happens to be safe for "writers" and it all has a kind of logic to it. What I find truly stunning is that people have gotten so carried away that now they are blaming Paterno for the Janitors not saying anything. Are you F'in kidding me, these media commentators suspend their self-righteousness and willfully ignorant logic for the janitors and they not only give them the benefit of the doubt but hey they are abused to. It is Paterno's fault. Meanwhile, we don't fully grapple with just how sick Sandusky was and how effective he was at eluding police, child welfare investigators, people at the second mile and psu admin(most of whom were his friends or close co-workers or former co-workers)...the breadth of these relationships is not fully understood nor are the contingencies certain actors faced. I think Joe's recommendation on the McQueary incident was obviously devastatingly wrong but I do not think it had heinous intent. I am not even sure they followed through on his recommedation because in the free report there is nothing about psychological evaluation he recommended---unless i missed it....if that is the case, his recommendation was not even tried so i am not sure how he is blamed in that case. Again, i think a lot more needs to be colored in and I think this charity function was great. I agree with the psualum above.— feudal_nobility09
- Also, this offers evidence that when it comes to friends in institutional settings---we should never be left to judge them or make judgements on contingencies regarding them because it pollutes our decision making. I am not saying everyone had pure motives in this child sex abuse scandal. What i am saying is that the relationships between the various actors involved has been greatly downplayed and it is totally distorting the commentary all over the media.— feudal_nobility09
This season is Joe's fourth season on the paper's Penn State beat. He previously covered the Nittany Lions for United Press International from 1976 to 1984.
Emily Kaplan is the Inquirer’s fall intern covering the Nittany Lions. She is a senior at Penn State and has covered a variety of sports for the university’s student-run paper, The Daily Collegian. Over the last two years, she has reported for The Associated Press from State College.
A Montclair, N.J. native, she has also interned at MLB Network, NHL.com and covered the 2012 Olympics in London. Follow her on Twitter here @EKaplan24.
